Corinne Matthews, Ph.D.
@corinnekathryn.bsky.social
Scholar of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Fantasy, & Consent | English PhD | Cohost of Sex. Love. Literature., a Pop Culture Podcast, found at @sexlovelitpodcast.bsky.social
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Starting off our smut discussions with a presentation from Corinne Matthews and Ayanni Cooper on the challenges of studying smut in the academy, and their "semi-scholarly" smut podcast, "Sex. Love. Literature." www.sexlovelitpodcast.com
Sex. Love. Literature. A Pop Culture Podcast
Sex. Love. Literature. is a pop culture podcast that relishes the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in media. Join pop culture scholars (and besties) Ayanni an…
www.sexlovelitpodcast.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Starting off our smut discussions with a presentation from Corinne Matthews and Ayanni Cooper on the challenges of studying smut in the academy, and their "semi-scholarly" smut podcast, "Sex. Love. Literature." www.sexlovelitpodcast.com
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actual feminists stood with the lady-ghouls of Fox News in their lawsuit because even evil women don't deserve to be sexually harassed in their evil workplaces and all women are harmed when we let that shit slide, but boy that experience sure didn't change any of them as people, did it
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
actual feminists stood with the lady-ghouls of Fox News in their lawsuit because even evil women don't deserve to be sexually harassed in their evil workplaces and all women are harmed when we let that shit slide, but boy that experience sure didn't change any of them as people, did it
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
There’s a KDrama called “Into the Ring” (aka Memorials) about a young woman who runs for local office largely for the salary (but also because she’s very passionate about hyper local issues) that really illustrates how important it is to pay government officials a reasonable amount of money (1/?)
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
There’s a KDrama called “Into the Ring” (aka Memorials) about a young woman who runs for local office largely for the salary (but also because she’s very passionate about hyper local issues) that really illustrates how important it is to pay government officials a reasonable amount of money (1/?)
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if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
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Good morning Georgia! Make good choices today! Get our electricity bills a chance to go back down! (And vote Rohit for City Council President, too!)
and georgia!! (vote Peter Hubbard and Alicia Johnson for Public Service Commission, PLEASE.) A reminder of the stakes via www.volts.wtf/p/pay-attent...
find your precinct here: mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/
find your precinct here: mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Good morning Georgia! Make good choices today! Get our electricity bills a chance to go back down! (And vote Rohit for City Council President, too!)
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One of the hallmark qualities of YA literature is in its ontology of meaning. Teens are interested in stories that matter. They care about big questions – questions about morality,
meaning, identity, questions of existential urgency.
The best covers seem to recognise this.
meaning, identity, questions of existential urgency.
The best covers seem to recognise this.
October 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
One of the hallmark qualities of YA literature is in its ontology of meaning. Teens are interested in stories that matter. They care about big questions – questions about morality,
meaning, identity, questions of existential urgency.
The best covers seem to recognise this.
meaning, identity, questions of existential urgency.
The best covers seem to recognise this.
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Now published in the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing: our research on YA Book covers, showing that book covers may be as powerful a driver of sales as author fame
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
YA book covers: likability and sales
Book covers have been an important aspect of book selling for the 20th and 21st centuries. In order to provide Young Adult (YA) authors with data about YA book covers, we asked: what makes a cover ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Now published in the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing: our research on YA Book covers, showing that book covers may be as powerful a driver of sales as author fame
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.
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Submit a Claim
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October 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
~gestures everywhere~
Someone could and maybe should write a paper on the developing lexicon for talking about This Moment, especially in higherEd and non-profit type spaces.
Maybe that already exists? But it’s wild to me how I go to meetings full of people who say things like, “all of this” and “these times” etc.
Maybe that already exists? But it’s wild to me how I go to meetings full of people who say things like, “all of this” and “these times” etc.
September 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
~gestures everywhere~
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This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...
She Broke Off Two Engagements. She Couldn’t Commit. Now She’s Dating Chatbots Instead.
As chatbot romance grows more common, women are redefining what they want from a partner—even if they are just ones and zeros.
slate.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...
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idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
September 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
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Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
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I overlapped with the instructor, Melissa, as grad students in Notre Dame's English department. One of her former ND colleagues has started a GoFundMe for her: gofund.me/3f5b12078
Donate to Help Support Our Children's Literature Colleague, organized by Angel Matos
Recently, our colleague Melissa McCoul was fired from her position as a S… Angel Matos needs your support for Help Support Our Children's Literature Colleague
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September 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I overlapped with the instructor, Melissa, as grad students in Notre Dame's English department. One of her former ND colleagues has started a GoFundMe for her: gofund.me/3f5b12078
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This instructor was not on tenure track, and therefore was vulnerable to exactly the kind of political pressure it is intended to protect scholars from.
It's why the Right despises tenure so much.
Tenure or a union for every educator.
It's why the Right despises tenure so much.
Tenure or a union for every educator.
Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
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president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
September 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This instructor was not on tenure track, and therefore was vulnerable to exactly the kind of political pressure it is intended to protect scholars from.
It's why the Right despises tenure so much.
Tenure or a union for every educator.
It's why the Right despises tenure so much.
Tenure or a union for every educator.
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I've got a really fun piece over @slj.com about Jane Austen turning 250. What are the ways her work has been remixed, retold, and revisited in YA? It's a stellar array of authors weighing in: www.slj.com/story/agelev...
Austen Ever After: YA authors revisit, remix Jane Austen’s work
This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, and over the last half-decade, YA adaptations have brought even more excitement to her work.
www.slj.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I've got a really fun piece over @slj.com about Jane Austen turning 250. What are the ways her work has been remixed, retold, and revisited in YA? It's a stellar array of authors weighing in: www.slj.com/story/agelev...
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There are about six answers to this.
1. The clothing in the Regency is not fugly, and much of the Victorian era clothing is. THE SLEEVES. *shudders* I say this as someone who writes in the Victorian era.
1. The clothing in the Regency is not fugly, and much of the Victorian era clothing is. THE SLEEVES. *shudders* I say this as someone who writes in the Victorian era.
August 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
There are about six answers to this.
1. The clothing in the Regency is not fugly, and much of the Victorian era clothing is. THE SLEEVES. *shudders* I say this as someone who writes in the Victorian era.
1. The clothing in the Regency is not fugly, and much of the Victorian era clothing is. THE SLEEVES. *shudders* I say this as someone who writes in the Victorian era.
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NPR first wrote about the group "No Sex for Fish" in 2019 — Kenyan women out to end the practice of trading sex to a fisherman in exchange for his catch to sell. Since then they're faced tribulations.
Whatever happened to the women in the 'No Sex for Fish' group?
NPR first wrote about the group "No Sex for Fish" in 2019 — Kenyan women out to end the practice of trading sex to a fisherman in exchange for his catch to sell. Since then they're faced tribulations.
n.pr
August 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
NPR first wrote about the group "No Sex for Fish" in 2019 — Kenyan women out to end the practice of trading sex to a fisherman in exchange for his catch to sell. Since then they're faced tribulations.
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Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
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Romance books written for adults are the next target of book banners. Here's the where, why, and how.
That, plus this week's book censorship news: bookriot.com/the-next-boo...
That, plus this week's book censorship news: bookriot.com/the-next-boo...
The Next Book Ban Target? Romance: Book Censorship News, August 22, 2025
Where and how romance books will become the next targets of book banners. That, plus this week's roundup of book censorship news.
bookriot.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Romance books written for adults are the next target of book banners. Here's the where, why, and how.
That, plus this week's book censorship news: bookriot.com/the-next-boo...
That, plus this week's book censorship news: bookriot.com/the-next-boo...
Excellent and thoughtful review of a book I also loved
"It’s a particular feeling when a book sinks straight into your bones, and in order to write about it, you have to pull it back out again."
@mollytempleton.com reviews Rachel Hartman's Among Ghosts, the newest YA novel from the author of Seraphina and Tess of the Road
reactormag.com/book-review-...
@mollytempleton.com reviews Rachel Hartman's Among Ghosts, the newest YA novel from the author of Seraphina and Tess of the Road
reactormag.com/book-review-...
We Are All of Us Haunted: Rachel Hartman’s Among Ghosts - Reactor
A novel that unfolds slowly and patiently, tracing the threads of history…
reactormag.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Excellent and thoughtful review of a book I also loved
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Doing union organizing when I was in grad school let me spend time with people in every field at the university, and we learned a lot about each other, but one thing that some folks in the sciences learned was just how much humanities grads were doing literally everything on their own w/no money.
August 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Doing union organizing when I was in grad school let me spend time with people in every field at the university, and we learned a lot about each other, but one thing that some folks in the sciences learned was just how much humanities grads were doing literally everything on their own w/no money.
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New episode out now on KPop Demon Hunters!
We get into productive intersection of idoldom and demon hunting that allows the film to explore internalized–and externalized–shame, particularly through the romance of Rumi, the leader of KPop group Huntr/x and Jinu, our kpop demon boy.
We get into productive intersection of idoldom and demon hunting that allows the film to explore internalized–and externalized–shame, particularly through the romance of Rumi, the leader of KPop group Huntr/x and Jinu, our kpop demon boy.
July 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New episode out now on KPop Demon Hunters!
We get into productive intersection of idoldom and demon hunting that allows the film to explore internalized–and externalized–shame, particularly through the romance of Rumi, the leader of KPop group Huntr/x and Jinu, our kpop demon boy.
We get into productive intersection of idoldom and demon hunting that allows the film to explore internalized–and externalized–shame, particularly through the romance of Rumi, the leader of KPop group Huntr/x and Jinu, our kpop demon boy.
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Sharing this again because too many in higher ed think the appropriate analgesic for this pain is AI.
"This 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be."
A Profession, If You Can Keep It
Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.
contingentmagazine.org
July 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Sharing this again because too many in higher ed think the appropriate analgesic for this pain is AI.